An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
"God has entrusted me with myself."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." - Marcus Aurelius
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war, why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”- Herman Goering
"He who spares the wicked injures the good." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." - Epictetus
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" - The holy gospel according to St. John, Chapter 15, verse 13
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
"The present moment is the only thing of which anyone can be deprived, at least if this is the only thing he has and he cannot lose what he has not got." - Marcus Aurelius
"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good" - Marcus Aurelius
This is a courtesy notice to readers. I have installed Google Analytics. This is not so that I can track you across the internet - Google is already doing that. It's so that I can better understand what readers are interested in, and attempt to improve on that content.
So it will be monitoring what search terms are used in the search bar, where you arrived from, what search terms brought you here, and what links you click while here. That's it. Just trying to get a better sense of your interests, to be better.
"Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view." - Marcus Aurelius
"Is it your reputation that is bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten.
The abyss of time swallows it all.
The emptiness of those applauding hands.
The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary.
And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth in space - and most of it uninhabited." - Marcus Aurelius
"Remember that all we have is 'on loan' from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission - indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever - nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
